Why don’t Christian apologists point out modern-day miracles of the caliber that fill the Bible?
Because today, when people make miracle claims they can usually be investigated and every time they’re investigated they’re exposed as bogus. The faith-healer Peter Popoff, for example, had this routine where he would pretend to get messages from God about what people in the audience had what diseases. Investigators, following a hunch, use a device for listening on radio communications to record his wife feeding him information through an ear piece. It ended up on Johnny Carson –first they played authorized videotape of the event and then they re-played the video tape with the wife’s voice-over. Huge blow to Popoff. • What are some common fallacies that are widely held to be true as it relates to Jesus and the founding of Christianity? One is thinking that as long as there’s a logically possible way to rationalize away a problem, it’s legitimate to rationalize it away. This comes into play when Christians see discrepancies in the gospel accounts, and then insist on believing the most c
